It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.